Peripheries

It's happened more than a few times now when I've shared ideas and work product with collaborators, that the comments were are about something peripheral and ancillary, rather than the primary topic: Sharing a video might elicit a comment about the music, or sharing a link to a new book, a comment about the cover art, or sharing a new piece of music, about the thumbnail image. We're attracted to the bling, the pretty pics, or anything that takes 15 seconds to engage with. But something unintended surprised me when I shared a YouTube video about a custom instrument I thought was interesting. That person commented that the music was interesting.